History VideoGame / SortTheCourt

* RulerProtagonist: You play as a king or queen and must manage your little village that you rule over, collecting taxes, building infrastructures, helping people and establishing alliances, to eventually grow it into a prosperous kingdom. All through answering simple Y/N questions.

* RulerProtagonist: You play as a king or queen and must manage you little village that you rule over, collecting taxes, building infrastructures, helping people and establishing alliances, to eventually grow it into a prosperous kingdom. All through answering simple Y/N questions.

* RandomEncounter: The entire game is comprised of a series of random encounters, some rare and some common. Depending on the choices made by the player different encounters and events will happen later on in the game.
* RomanceSidequest: [[spoiler:Turning down the offer to join the Council of Crowns will eventually let the King/Queen get a shot at dating the Royal Advisor.]]

This WebGame was developed by Graeme Borland through UsefulNotes/{{Unity}} [=WebGL=] and [[https://www.kongregate.com/games/graebor/sort-the-court released]] for Website/{{Kongregate}} on July 8th, 2017. It is also available for downloading on [[https://gamejolt.com/games/sort-the-court/11736 Game Jolt]] and [[https://graebor.itch.io/sort-the-court itch.io]].

This WebGame was developed by Graem Borland through UsefulNotes/{{Unity}} [=WebGL=] and [[https://www.kongregate.com/games/graebor/sort-the-court released]] for Website/{{Kongregate}} on July 8th, 2017. It is also available for downloading on [[https://gamejolt.com/games/sort-the-court/11732 Game Jolt]] and [[https://graebor.itch.io/sort-the-court itch.io]].

This WebGame was developed by graebor through UsefulNotes/{{Unity}} [=WebGL=] and [[https://www.kongregate.com/games/graebor/sort-the-court released]] for Website/{{Kongregate}} on July 8th, 2017.

** One of the candidates to wield the Dragonblade is [[spoiler:the Sneaky Girl]]. By the time you get the Dragonsword, you'll likely already know her shifty nature, but you can still let her have it. [[spoiler:She does kill the dragon, but also takes half the gold hoard for herself, while the Knight, the other candidate, provides you with all 500.]]

* SadisticChoice: There are times where the player will be forced to decide between two bad options with different drawbacks. If they go into debt for example, they can choose to accept an offer from a demon to bail them out at the cost of losing some residents or wait until they earn enough gold morally at the cost of loosing several potential encounters.

Good news! You've become the king or queen of a modest yet promising village and must now lead them to prosperity and greatness... or tax them heavily and feed them to monsters, it's kinda up to the player. ''Sort The Court'' is a simple yet addicting mix of role playing, resource management and interactive fiction. All actions taken by the [=NPCs=] boil down to simple yes or no questions which impact and affect the ongoing story.

Players must choose their responses carefully while managing their reserve gold supply, populace and overall happiness lest they run into trouble that will negative impact the town and drive people away. Once the last person leaves its game over regardless of happiness or gold and the player will have to start again. Luckily, it's fairly easily to avoid most negative outcomes with a bit of experience and good old trial and error.

Players must choose their responses carefully while managing their reserve gold supply, populace and overall happiness lest they run into trouble that will negative impact the town and drive people away. Once the last person leaves its game over regardless of happiness or gold and the player will have to start again. Luckily, its fairly easily to avoid most negative outcomes with a bit of experience and good old trial and error.

* ActionGirl: [[spoiler:The Sneaky Girl is one of the few NPCs who can wield the Dragonblade and slay the dragon terrorizing the kingdom.]]

Good news! You've become the king or queen of a modest yet promising village and must now lead them to prosperity and greatness... or tax them heavily and feed them to monsters, its kinda up to the player. ''Sort The Court'' is a simple yet addicting mix of role playing, resource management and interactive fiction. All actions taken by the [=NPCs=] boil down to simple yes or no questions which impact and affect the ongoing story.

* ChestMonster: One of the [=NPCs=] is a mimic named Chester. He usually asks to be allowed to eat people and offers large sums of gold in return. Sometimes he doesn't even wait for an answer and eats some folks "accidentally" before offering to buy off their lives with some gold.

* VideoGameCaringPotential: The entire game revolves around making choices so its only natural that about half of the options would fall under this. Good players can open up several shops and attractions to keep their people happy, pardon criminals, slay dragons, donate gold from their personal stash to help their subjects with personal problems or just offer it as a nice gift, fix a broken robot, expand their empire from a tiny village to a thriving city, clear out pests such as goblins, find diplomatic solutions to problems and even join a royal council by the end of the game. Alternatively...

Good news! You've become the king or queen of a modest yet promising village and must now lead them to prosperity and greatness... or tax them heavily and feed them to monsters, its kinda up to the player. Sort The Court is a simple yet addicting mix of role playing, resource management and interactive fiction. All actions taken by the [=NPCs=] boil down to simple yes or no questions which impact and affect the ongoing story.

The game is available [[https://www.kongregate.com/games/graebor/sort-the-court?acomplete=sort+the here.]]

!This game provides examples of:

* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Getting too careless with the lives and mood of the citizens will deal some major damage to overall happiness, which is needed to expand the kingdom and will cause it to actively shrink if it gets too low. Refusing to help your subjects with their businesses and other projects can also cost you a lot more gold in the long run than simply donating a smaller amount would have.

Good news! You've become the king or queen of a modest yet promising village and must now lead them to prosperity and greatness... or tax them heavily and feed them to monsters, its kinda up to the player. Sort The Court is a simple yet addicting mix of role playing, resource management and interactive fiction. All actions taken by the NPCs boil down to simple yes or no questions which impact and affect the ongoing story.

* ChestMonster: One of the NPCs is a mimic named Chester. He usually asks to be allowed to eat people and offers large sums of gold in return. Sometimes he doesn't even wait for an answer and eats some folks "accidentally" before offering to buy off their lives with some gold.

* DealWithTheDevil: Several of the options for obtaining more gold involve sacrificing people to monsters in exchange for a large cash payment. One of the recurring NPCs, an imp named Georgie, will often show up when the player is in debt and offer to bail them out for a few souls.

* VideoGameCaringPotential: The entire game revolves around making choices so its only natural that about half of the options would fall under this. Good players can open up several shops and attractions to keep their people happy, pardon criminals, slay dragons, donate gold from their personal stash to help their subjects with personal problems or just as a nice gift, fix a broken robot, expand their empire from a tiny village to a thriving city, clear out pests such as goblins, find diplomatic solutions to problems and even join a royal council by the end of the game. Alternatively...
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Evil rulers can gamble with and make deals with demons, feed people to monsters, refuse even simple requests, allow thieves and other villains to roam freely, punish their loyal subjects for minor mistakes, ignore serious problems and much much more. However...

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: A sufficiently amoral player can do some pretty bad stuff if they're evil and selfish enough. Feeding people to monsters, selling their subjects souls to demons in exchange for money, allowing thieves to steal from them in exchange for a cut of the profits, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking denying granny a coin for the daily newspaper...]]

* RandomEncounter: The entire game is comprised of a series of random encounters, some rare and some common. Depending on the choices made by the player different encounters and events will happen later on in the game.

* DragonHoard: One of the later game encounters has a dragon show up and demand a large sum of gold or it will massacre the townspeople. Afterwards the player can undergo a short quest to slay the dragon which will allow the kingdom to claim its horde and boost their treasure reserves by a considerable amount.

Good news! You've become the king or queen of a modest yet promising village and must lead lead them to prosperity and greatness... or tax them and feed them to monsters, its kinda up to the player. Sort The Court is a simple yet addicting mix of role playing, resource management and interactive fiction. All actions taken by the NPCs boil down to simple yes or no questions which impact and affect the ongoing story.

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